LORI TERESA YEARWOOD
TRAUMA-INFORMED JOURNALIST & SPEAKER
LORI TERESA YEARWOOD
TRAUMA-INFORMED JOURNALIST
& SPEAKER
Experience
PUBLICATIONS & PLATFORMS WHERE MY WORK HAS BEEN RECENTLY FEATURED
JOURNALISM JOBS
Collective Trauma Summit 2021
The Nation
The Washington Post
Stanford University
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Arizona Republic
The American Prospect
CNBC
HmmDaily.Com
The Deseret News
The Guardian
MIT Technology Review
Slate
Current:
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project — National Housing Crisis Reporter
Past Jobs:
The Miami Herald — Reporter
The St. Louis Post Dispatch — Reporter
The Syracuse Newspapers — Reporter
MOST MEMORABLE INTERVIEWS
Elizabeth Kubler Ross, author of On Death and Dying, founder of the Five Stages of Grief
A teenager experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake City. “How did you get out of homelessness?” he asked me.
Time spent with The Dalai Llama — he blessed me at a press conference that I helped cover for The Miami Herald.
MOST AMAZING WRITING EXPERIENCE
Working with the children at Storyteller’s Inc., a non-profit organization that I co-founded to help children write and then share their experience, strength and hope.
FAVORITE WRITING JOBS
Writing long magazine stories about wise and eccentric people for The Miami Herald’s Tropic Magazine.
LIFE EXPERIENCE FROM WHICH I UNEXPECTEDLY LEARNED
Two years of homelessness, because those two years have given me a much greater compassion and understanding of myself and others.